Date: May 24, 2013

Date: May 30, 2013

Route: Jigs Up (Steort's Ridge area- Dead Snag, BCC) - Trad, 5.6, 2-3 pitches
Notes: Not as cool as Steort's. Climbed it with Kayte and Luke, took 2 hours. Only one double-rope rappel to the ground.

Luke coming up the fun finger cracks on the second pitch

Rappelling off Jig's Up, BCC

Date: May 31, 2013

Route: Crescent Crack (Crescent Crack Buttress, LCC) - Trad, 5.7, 2 pitches
Notes: I took my first lead "fall" on the off-width crack on the second pitch. We got spooked and rapped off from the chains. I dislike off-widths.

Off-width crack on second pitch of Crescent Crack

Minor cut from fall

Date: June 5, 2013

Route: Perhaps (Perhaps Area, LCC) - Trad, 5.7, 2 pitches

Notes: Luke led first, I led second. Super fun! Bring lots of long runners next time to reduce rope drag

We also climbed Green Adjective (5.9 - finger crack) on top rope after rappelling off Perhaps.

Luke coming up 2nd pitch on Perhaps

Date: June 7, 2013

Route: Outside Corner (JHCOB Wall, BCC), Trad, 5.7, 3 pitches

Notes: Very fun route, walk off is a pain - make sure to bring approach shoes up the route with you

First pitch of Outside Corner

Looking down to climber coming up 3rd pitch

Date: Friday June 14, 2013

Route: For Whom the Bells Toll (Bells Canyon), Trad, 5.7, 5 pitches

Notes: Luke and I carried a full trad rack and rope up 2 miles, 2 k ft., just to end up free-soloing this route. One 5.7 move, the rest is 5.5 at best. We protected the one move on pitch 4.

Looking into Little Cottonwood Canyon from the top of 'For Whom the Bells Toll'

Date: Saturday June 15, 2013

Route: West Slabs (Mt. Olympus), Trad, 5.5, usually 9-10 pitches

Notes: This was my third time on this route. We simul-climbed 4 pitches and soloed the rest. Took us 1 hour 45 minutes from the base of the climb to the ridge. Never roping up for this again, but still pretty fun. Heading to the Palisades next weekend!

Bring an ice axe if there's snow in the gully! It got sketchy and tricky up higher.

Our 2nd pitch began at a set of chains about 200 ft from the base of the wall

Not steep

Good anchor

Brent at the top

Saturday July 27, 2013

Route: Tingeys Terror via Sweet Jane Variation, Trad, 5.7, 4 pitches

Notes: Climbed with Luke and Kayte. Started just right of Beckeys Wall start near bolts and followed steep crack (Sweet Jane variation 5.7) up to a belay tree. From there we climbed up Tingeys and traversed too early on a STEEP slab onto Tingeys direct (5.7+). If that was 5.7+, I would hate to see what a harder friction climb is like.

We climbed up the last pitch of Tingeys Terror, which was a left-facing crack, which takes a right up and over easy terrain to some trees. We scrambled above the trees to a set of chains and rapped off the east side of the buttress.

5.7 Sweet Jane Variation crack

Coming up Tingeys Terror, the pitch before the traverse

Scary, mostly unprotectable traverse onto Tingeys Direct (5.7+)

Wednesday August 7, 2013

Route: Bushwhack Crack, Trad, 5.8, 2 pitches

Notes: Planned to climb Pentapitch, but 3 groups were ahead of us, so we went down the canyon to do Bushwhack Crack. This is a great, sustained 5.8 hand crack. Crux is right off the deck. Very well protected. 2nd pitch is much easier.